Recent content by EMTecBOB

It used to get me too, now I just think about all the good times. - BTW, hug em while you got em.

That is a good observation. If I remember correctly, on my dads full death certificate, it listed step by step what caused death...ending in cardiogenic shock. - It all comes down to the pump stopping, or having nothing left to pump...which also causes it to stop.

OK...it is now making more sense to me. And you guys make great points....not walking, breathing fast? Could be something really bad going on, after all, even shock kills. What got me to thinking about this was the fact that > 30/min respiration's seemed to be so arbitrary. But I was not...

I understand that it is out of norm. I was just wondering why someone with no other obvious signs of life threats, would be tagged red just because they were breathing fast. After all, if I had just been in a traumatic event, I might be breathing fast without a dent in the fender.

In START Triage, a victim is tagged red if they are breathing more than 30 per minute. - Why is this considered an "immediate" threat to life?

On my AED skill sheet, there was nothing about preventing stacked shocks. I did not think we did stacked shocks anymore.

I joined the NAEMT this morning, and was wondering about the limited health care coverage you can get through them. - I was wondering, how much better than nothing is it?...as that is what I have now, nothing.

Somewhere in the 70's, and passed.

You got that right. - I was hoping to get there in time to take a little power nap, but it did not work out that way. - I took most of the test just laid back in the chair, clicking away. Only a couple of questions made me sit up and come full alert. But dang I was tired.

I just got my results, and I passed. - I was starting to get a little worried, because of it being an adaptive test, and me thinking it was too easy. - Here is an interesting part, and I think it had to do with it being an adaptive test... one of the questions I was pretty sure I got wrong, and...

Yeah, they told me maybe Sunday, but probably Monday for the results.

No. No results yet.

IMHO, you are responding to respiratory arrest. You do not know how long this person has been down. She is not breathing...no airway, no patient. A urgent move would be in order.

I live in McKinleyville, about 90 miles south of Oregon. There was a test center less than a half mile from my home, but it was booked through Jan 8th. And the site in Redding would have required me to travel 299 in the winter time, which is not something I wanted to do. If the weather would...

Took the NREMT test today. It was a 4 hour drive to the site, (on icy roads) and then about 3 hours home. - The exam cut off at 75 questions and took 50 minutes, and did not seem to be very hard. So I guess we will soon see how my class score of 99.3 percent translates to doing on the test. - I...